culled
Example Sentences
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Cooked on a stone slate -- or in a hot pot with vegetables -- the meat comes from bears culled to curb maulings that have killed a record 13 people this year.
From Barron's
The wild deer "populations are essentially culled by trained people," Davies said, adding "the traceability is very clear".
From Barron's
It comes after bird flu led to large numbers of turkeys being culled early, while a drier spring and summer hit sprout harvests.
From BBC
Mill closures have left parts of the South bereft of buyers for the culled pulpwood.
Manufacturers, construction firms, information companies and professional businesses culled more than 70,000 jobs combined.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
